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The only thing I will miss about having a GOP president is Secretary of Labor Scott Walker.

What I miss about having a GOP president is that the Democrats at least pretended to care about civil liberties. When TEAM BLUE is in office, those concerns quickly fall by the wayside, while TEAM RED mostly criticizes the president for not violating the Constitution hard enough.

Every four years we are told that the race between the Rep and the Dem is just too darn close, and the race is just too darn important to waste our votes on the Libertarian candidate. When Hillary and Donald are basically tied in the October polls, I fully believe we’ll hear the same thing this go round.

I’m sure that the expectation is that the thefts will all be from larger markets which are better able to absorb the losses. Of course those markets will locate themselves the fuck away from large concentrations of poor people. That leaves the owners of small stores in poor or marginal neighborhoods holding the sack. Next step: designate acceptable targets for legal theft.

Yeah, sounds like they’re trying to officially be reasonable about seriously pretty crime, but my mind immediately Lewis to ordering a tiny, pricey dish with gold leaf and truffles and whatever and walking out, because it’s a small quantity! And I was hungry!

I used to go to a waffle house where folks could wait outside and people going in would offer to pay for their meals. People like to help other people. But people don’t like to be stolen from or scammed.

Actually the ruling is one common to most criminal law AFAIK: a successful defense by necessity. The ruling is not that the food belonged to the attempted thief, just that the attempt should not be penalized criminally because he did something he had to do. The store got its food back.

It’s like what’s been pursued in some medical marijuana cases, that the person had to violate a criminal law to prevent injury.

So this doesn’t make stealing legal, it just decriminalizes it under certain conditions. Any criminal act you can think of can be similarly excused in such cases. The store doesn’t have to give up its food, and is still allowed to take the usual methods to prevent its theft. Don’t make a bigger case out of this than it really is.

People should not be punished if forced by need they enslave some to work the earth and produce food and others to preserve and prepare it for them. This seems like the ultimate preversity of justifications for serfdom.

Somebody asked recently about the libertarian solution to people who do not pay fines to the government, since we are generally against imprisoning people for unpaid fines. My solution – you withold non-essential government services from those people. Those who commit crimes against you will still be prosecuted, but the courts would refuse to record your contracts or issue you marriage licenses. You’d still be allowed to drive on the roads and keep your drivers license, but no license plate renewal. Etc.

This is not a perfect solution, and SLDs about how there shouldn’t be things like license plates apply. But we’re not going to achieve libertopia overnight. Also, as the state shrinks the state will have fewer and fewer opportunities to fine people and the problem will go away.

The libertarian solution to all “fines to the government” is quiet simple. Give government no power to fine.

I’m having a hard time thinking of anything that a libertarian government would be able to fine someone for. You’re not thinking of vehicle fees and property tax and such are you? Because those are right out anyway.

The three or four serious crimes that a libertarian government would still be around to enforce all require guns and force and jail to deal with .

Here’s a solution: The state doesn’t get to collect fines but only to adjudicate claims of restitution which are collected by the victims. As for government services–anybody who wants one pays for it directly.

A license to shampoo hair costs just $50 a year. But before obtaining it, Memphis resident Tammy Pritchard would have to spend 300 hours in school, plus take two exams for $140.

You can’t let just anyone shampoo your hair unless you want us to become Somalia. Shampooing is so complicated that you can’t even let anyone have a license with just one exam. And no, this isn’t regulatory capture; the really smart people never acknowledge that such a thing happens, so it doesn’t.

I really want to do this. Edibles have always been shoehorned into sweets, presumably because enough sugar and chocolate will mask the flavor. (They don’t.) Weed really works better with a savory flavor profile. I made a cheesy, creamy wild rice dish that’ll knock your socks off once, and the flavor worked.

why mask it? It’s fucking delicious and reminiscent of some herbal blends already used for the purpose of flavouring edible substances. But then, kale and mustard are two of my favorite vegetables and I am incapable of cultivating enough of most spices to satisfy my need, so my tastes is already a bit beyond the pale. I like hop so much, I’ve burnt my throat scarfing hop cones while I’m harvesting. I’ve done the same with the extremely powerful mustard I like to grow as well. Wormwood’s another of my favorite herbs. I grow gallons of that every year and still sometimes run low.

A friend of the family is in the process of adopting her grandson from her deadbeat daughter. The friend is a mother of three and has several grandkids, and has helped take care of the grandson for most of his life, but before she’s allowed to adopt she’s required to take four eight hour courses on childcare.

Then again, her daughter’s enough of a shithead that she lost custody of her kid, so maybe classes aren’t a bad idea.

This begs the question of how well adjusted are the children of the people running the class. Anecdotal case and point: some of the most unhinged, emotionally wrecked people I’ve ever met have degrees in psychology.

Most of the people I went to school with for psychology were that way, and it got even worse in the clinical domain, which almost no one seemed to voluntarily pursue except as a result of neurosis regularly stumbling into delusion or other psychopathies. Which kind of makes sense. After studying psychology for years, a person has to be nuts not to come to the conclusion it’s all bull shit.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men, It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes

Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?

The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents.

In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker demanded from Exxon Mobil copies of communications between the oil company and 90 different political and policy organizations “and any other organizations engaged in research or advocacy concerning Climate Change or policies.”

The subpoena was part of a national, coordinated legal campaign by state attorneys general and left-wing advocacy groups to use the legal system against companies and organizations that disagree with and advocate against Democratic policies to address global climate change.

Citizens United was decided on a razor-thin margin. Four out of the five justices were a-okay with government chilling speech. Even the ACLU submitted an amicus brief on the side of free speech, but the justices were hacks.

Shortly after the social host law went into effect, Orange County officials say the first violation was written.

“They have one of our first cases that they believe is going to be charged that fit the criteria,” said Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus.

It happened in the town of Monroe. Officials say a girl was taken to the hospital after getting sick at a party April 1.

“It’s just staggering just how open a parent was about allowing their children, or the young adults, to drink,” Neuhaus said.

“If we want to bring out the hammer to enforce this law, we will do it. There is no question,” added Orange County Sheriff Carl DuBois. Between the state police, between the sheriffs office the local police agencies. If the hammer has to drop, it will.”

STUTTGART, Germany ? Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in Germany to usher in a new U.S. military commander for Europe, used the opportunity Tuesday to send a blunt warning to Moscow not to provoke the NATO alliance ? after recent encounters in the air and on the high seas.

“We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake ? we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us,” Carter said at the U.S. military’s European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

Carter expressed a desire not to start a new Cold War with Russia ? or a “hot” one.

But he said Russia seeks to “erode” the peaceful order Europe and the rest of the West have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.

Carter, in vowing the U.S. would defend its allies, warned Russia is increasing its submarine patrols to the North Atlantic. He did not specifically mention the recent “barrel rolls” by Russian jets over U.S. military aircraft in the past few weeks but accused Russia’s leaders of “nuclear saber-rattling” and putting the world at risk in the process.

“Bill could sometimes be a clown in the bedroom and? I soon guessed why. As long as our relationship stayed playful, I might not take a “second look” at the size of his penis. Yes, it performed well but, it was a little-boy penis that just never quite?grew-up.”

I think we may have a bit of insight into why he has to resort to flying on the “Lolita Express” to child rape island in his dotage. His little boy penis was barely adequate for adult women even in his prime.

So, for some reason the last 2 mornings I’ve been unable to post links, either using the html tags or just copy/pasting the link into the comment without getting an error: An error occurred. Code 877.

Anyone know what the fuck’s about?

Anyway, some guy is suing his former employer because his job was too boring. If the courts rule in his favor, than at least 95% of us should have a case. if anyone wants to read about it, google “man sues former employer over boring job” since the fucking skwirrelz aren’t letting me post links. Fuck you, skwirrlz

ATLANTA ? Georgia’s Republican governor vetoed a bill Tuesday allowing concealed handguns on college campuses, rejecting the proposal that a legislature controlled by his own party had easily approved in an election year.

The bill would have allowed anyone 21 and over to carry a concealed handgun with the proper permit on a public college or university campus. The veto decision came weeks after Gov. Nathan Deal, who is in his second and final term, rejected a bill shielding opponents of gay marriage. That measure was backed by conservative groups but blasted by more than 500 Georgia companies as discriminatory.

Deal’s decision to kill the gun bill isn’t a complete surprise. After it passed the legislature, he asked members to pass follow-up bills addressing concerns about access to on-campus daycare centers, spaces where high schools students can take college-level courses and where disciplinary hearings are held. They declined, saying the original bill was carefully considered.

WTF is creating spaces where HS students can take college classes? They’re already called AP classes. If they want to take real college courses, meet whatever existing requirements and take them with other college students. Or finish the HS requirements and graduate early. Creating special HS only college classes is just creating a pseudo experience.

New York’s highest court on Tuesday upheld a driver’s conviction for illegal possession for a gravity knife, rejecting arguments that he didn’t know the folding knife he used for work could open with a flick of the wrist.

Elliott Parrilla was pulled over for traffic and equipment violations in upper Manhattan in 2011. He told authorities the knife in his pocket was bought at a big Bronx retail store two years earlier to cut sheet rock, that he opened it only with two hands and had used it that morning to cut tile on a renovation project.

The Court of Appeals, ruling unanimously, concluded that not knowing about its illegal features doesn’t invalidate the conviction.

One libertarianish thing that has actually happened in NH over the past several years was complete repeal of restrictions on knives and other blades. And there hasn’t been a rash of switchblade stabbings and sword-cane attacks. And I get to carry a 3 1/4″ fully automatic opening knife, which is really a very useful thing.

Had to look up “pilium ballistic knife” and found this gem of polished bullshit:

After hearing uncorroborated testimony from a congressional witness that ballistic knives could be used to defeat body armor typically worn by police officers, and witnessing a staged demonstration against a wood-backed target,[11] Senator Alphonse D’Amato of New York introduced the Ballistic Knife Prohibition Act, a bill to ban sale or possession of ballistic knives. The bill eventually failed. However, after gaining the support of Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona,[12] congressional support for a ban on import or possession of ballistic knives quickly gained traction. In September 1986 senators supporting the ballistic knife ban attached their bill to popular legislation designed to eradicate drug crops in foreign countries and halt international drug trafficking operations. The bill was subsequently enacted into law. The new federal statute prohibited future importation or possession of such knives in interstate commerce. Some individual states following the example set by the federal law and passed even tighter restrictions, sometimes banning ownership of the knives outright within their state.[13]

New York City’s law is even worse, which I am sure is surprising. Business Insider, of all places, wrote something about it.

Short version: it is an excuse for the NYPD to harass people, mostly minorities (like a janitor with a knife clipped to his belt) and garner them an easy arrest. The State doesn’t care because it is New York City’s stupid issue. Woo!

Also maddening: reform at the state level is being blocked by Republicans, apparently out of spite against the city.

The broadness of the gravity-knife law is mostly only taken advantage of by New York City law enforcement. Republicans have argued in the past against reforming it because it generally isn’t applied in other parts of the state

UPITER, Fla. ? What boosters describe as the nation’s last tackle powder-puff football game is no more, at least for now.

After 50 years of spirited competition between seniors and juniors, Jupiter High’s principal has canceled the annual event, saying he doesn’t believe helmets and shoulder pads borrowed from boys’ teams adequately protect the girls who get crunched in the game.

The cancellation blindsided Jupiter, a middle-class suburb on the Palm Beach coast. The game packs the stands ? something the Jupiter boys’ team rarely does ? and raised $7,000 last year, parents say. While boys dress like female cheerleaders in tight shorts, crop tops and wigs, the girls get to experience the thrill of competing before a roaring crowd instead of playing softball or soccer in front of a few dozen parents and friends.

Worst “economic recovery” since the Great Depression, bar none. No other recovery has been even close. Your Obamessiah one of the all-time great spenders of world history, with precious little to show for it.

Hey fuckface, the financial crash was almost eight years ago, and the economic performance still sucks ass.

And everyone here knows that the biggest reason why is because your most venerated Obamessiah can’t get enough of regulating the ever-living shit out of us. Obamacare is pretty much a disaster, with drastically overestimed numbers of enrollees, dropped coverage, fewer work hours, increased deficit projections, etc. etc.

And we won’t even get into his War on Coal and his endless targeting of small business that won’t tie the line on his agenda.

Libertarians of a paleocon bent should allow themselves to enjoy the conservative butt hurt over Trump winning the nomination, no matter what they think of Trump. In the early 2000s, conservatives read non interventionists out of the movement. If you didn’t support the Iraq war, you were no longer welcome. I supported the Iraq war so that didn’t bother me, though it should have. Now they have done the same thing to the white working class or anyone who doesn’t support free trade without reservation. In 2003 anyone who didn’t support the Iraq war was a secret terrorist sympathizer. In 2016, anyone who doesn’t support free trade under all circumstances is a welfare queen wanting a hand out.

Low and behold kicking people out of your movement and attacking anyone deemed unpure has turned out to be a pretty sorry political strategy. How could all of those constitutional conservative geniuses have seen that coming?

And Trump’s nomination should secure Kevin D. Williamson as the new holder of the David Frum Chair for self defeating jackasserdry. We should congratulate Mr. Williamson, he earned it.

They still are good even with Trump. Its not like Trump rejects international trade. Even if you do believe in total open markets to imports with no expectation of return treatment from other nations, the current round of trade agreements are so corporatist and so awful, I don’t see how anyone who supports freedom no matter what their particular politics could support them. The TPP is nothing but a giant corporatist give away and is on balance an enormous restriction on freedom. I love my subsidized crap from China as much as the next guy, but when the price of getting that becomes giving away US sovereignty to supra national bureaucrats and weaponizing copyright law against free speech and innovation, I think I will pass.

They are probably still better. And yeah, the TPP and most of the other supposed “free trade” agreements suck. I just had imagined that more of the rank and file republicans were a bit more principled about trade. Silly me.

So you are down with the US government making copyright law criminal? That is what the TPP does stormy. And you are totally okay with a layer of supra national bureacrats setting rules and regulations on American products as opposed to the American government?

If you can defend the TPP, do it. But the fact that TPP is corporaitst bullshit has nothing to do with taxes and you know it. You generally are more honest than shreek.

“Libertarians of a paleocon bent should allow themselves to enjoy the conservative butt hurt over Trump winning the nomination, no matter what they think of Trump”

I like how Trump fans think pointing out Trump’s complete incompetence and unfitness to be president means you’re butt hurt.

Especially tremendous given that any criticism of white trash sends Trumpistas into conniption fits. Kevin Williamson said destitute white *communities* should die so that the people in them can move to where actual jobs are, for example, and Trump supporters then spent a month and a half drooling all over themselves while hysterically claiming he said poor white *people* should die.

And it’s Trump’s *opponents* who are butthurt? Trump’s entire campaign consists of tapping into his supporters’ eternal ass pain and Trump supporters claim it’s other people being unreasonable. Please.

Do you not like Williamson? If you don’t, say so. If I am mischaracterizing your opinion, tell me how I am. Its not hard, just say what you actually think.

Maybe it is just me but when someone says that I believe something I don’t, I correct them and tell them is in fact my opinion. I don’t say “you just think you are a mind reader”. I honstly don’t see what the point of saying that is. It doesn’t debase someone of their erroneous opinion of my thoughts. I honestly can’t see why anyone would say that. So why do you? Why can’t you just say “no, I don’t like Kevin Williamson” or “no, Williamson isn’t saying that…”?

You said that the Trump supporters were just projecting in response to Irish’s defense of Williamson. Wasn’t the point of that to say that they were projecting in this case, meaning Williamson wasn’t wrong? That is how I read it. Again, if you meant something different, just say so. You own your point. If I misunderstand it, point it out.

Also, I did imply you like Williamson. If you don’t or have no opinion about him, just say that. That would push the conversation a long much more than some off the wall comment about mind reading.

Williamson was right about poor communities with nothing going on needing to die (the alternative basically being propped up with welfare). I, at least, have no further opinion on Williamson. I’m pretty sure Irish and SF weren’t trying to say much more than that, if even that.

So people who lose their jobs because of the regulatory state are responsible for it? Are the coal miners who are getting fucked by the EPA just not accepting personal responsibility? That is an interesting view of personal responsibility I must say.

How about we take the EPA’s foot off their throat and let the market decide that Lee? Its nice that you and other top men think the “country needs to move ahead” and all but I would rather let the market decide that if that is okay.

Kevin D. Williamson said those communities deserved to die as if they are dying as the result of some ultimate justice delivered by the free market and the drug warrior gods. He is such an asshat and so smug, he couldn’t even make the right case. The case he should have made was that those communities are dying because the regulatory state is killing them. That Trump is pointing to the wrong culprit. Doing that would have prevented him from being smug and sayind these people got what they deserved.

I would also point out that Williamson engaged in the worst sort of drug warrior bullshit. The entire article was based on the assumption that anyone who uses drugs is going to destroy their lives and any misfortune that occurs is the fault of them using drugs. Even if you believe those communities should die, what the fuck does the fact that people who live there take drugs have to do with it? Nothing, unless you are jackass drug warrior who thinks drugs are the evil poison, which Williamson apparently is.

Lastly of course none of the shit he said about drugs is even true. Poor people don’t use drugs or abuse drugs anymore than rich people. Study after study has shown that. They just get caught more often. Five minutes of google searching would have revealed that. But Williamson is too stupid, lazy and smug to do that.

Unless you want to become a drug warrior, I would advise you against being a Williamson fan boy.

Even if you believe those communities should die, what the fuck does the fact that people who live there take drugs have to do with it?

It has a lot to do with their ability to get a job. Low-skill labor almost always requires drug testing because you are quite often working in physically dangerous conditions. I oppose the drug war wholeheartedly, however drug use is an impediment to improving your financial condition. If they want out of poverty, they need to take the steps necessary to do so.

First, the people there don’t use drugs at any higher level than anywhere else. The data shows that. Second, that is drug warrior bullshit. Millions of people all over this country use drugs and do so while working and functioning. To believe otherwise is to believe that drugs are this magical substance that turns hard working people into bums. Sorry, I don’t buy that bullshit and neither should you.

If you are a roofing contractor, you have to drug test. If you employ heavy machinery operators, you have to drug test. If you have delivery trucks, you have to drug test. The insurers require it and the liability is just too damn high to not do it.

Moral judgments aside, drug use is a hindrance to getting a job. If you need work, your best option is to be clean.

If I were those things I would make sure my workers showed up to work sober and ready to work and if they didn’t I would fire them. What they did outside of work is their own business. Again, do you really think that because someone smokes pot one weekend that they are then going to show up to work stoned? If not, then what is the point of testing them?

The point of testing them is because if there is an accident, they’re going to be tested then. If they test positive and you do not have a testing regime in place to weed them out of the employee pool, you can be held liable or your insurer will refuse to cover it.

That’s just the way it is.

And if you are working on a government contract, you are required to have drug testing anyway. Given that government construction is a huge portion of the overall industry, you would be foolish to not have a employee pool that was already compliant per the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988.

And that aside, it’s not as if drug testing is the only indicator of drug use. I have worked in construction on and off for over a decade. I’ve heard stories from my family, who’s in the business, for longer still. Meth, crack, heroin, and alcoholism can be debilitating and personally endangering, but they can also sap initiative and make otherwise competent laborers essentially unemployable. You just cannot keep a guy on payroll who’s sneaking off to the portajohn to light up.

Yes, drug testing is pretty much bullshit for many occupations and for many recreational drugs, but hard drug use is detrimental even without weeding out users by testing.

If you are a roofing contractor, you have to drug test. If you employ heavy machinery operators, you have to drug test. If you have delivery trucks, you have to drug test.

If you work on a helpdesk you have to drug test.

Yes, it was a term of employment. The job paid $12.32/hr and got outsourced to India, despite the fact the Indian agents were less than 1/3rd as efficient at handling calls (with fewer resolutions without escalation). I don’t know if they could pay $4.08 for the Mumbai agents. (I know the ticket statistics because I had a secondary duty of supporting the ticketing system despite only being there a year. I saw the data. And then there were all of the callers in the transitional peiod whose first reaction to hearing my voice was to exclaim their joy at having gotten an American agent.)

Every low-skill job I had growing up had no testing. These were non-physical jobs, though. Hotels, grocery stores, that sort of thing. Service jobs – the kind that tend to dominate after industry has left your town. The only testers were big corporations that were doing some moral preening (e.g. Blockbuster).

Anecdote: From personal experience, working with alcoholics is just impossible. Working with people who smoke weed is much less problematic. Working with people who take speed is a trip; those sweaty, twitchy bastards.

Moral judgments aside, drug use is a hindrance to getting a job. If you need work, your best option is to be clean.

All drug testing does is keep you from hiring stupid druggies.

Never seen a restaurant yet that didn’t have a “guy who knew a guy.” And yet drug tests are so common in the restaurant industry. It’s almost like banning something just means people innovate their way around your ban, enabled by people who don’t know anything about drugs fancying that no mere druggie could pull the wool over their eyes, nossir. *taps nose slyly*

Kevin Williamson said destitute white *communities* should die so that the people in them can move to where actual jobs are, for example, and Trump supporters then spent a month and a half drooling all over themselves while hysterically claiming he said poor white *people* should die.

I don’t disagree with him necessarily. There are so many shithole towns and cities that are only standing because welfare exists, the working middle class have all moved away while society’s lowest common denominators stick around because the cost of living is low and the welfare checks are as high as they would be anywhere else.

However, you and I both know that this logic applies equally to basically every inner-city neighborhood in every large city in the US, but if someone applied that same argument by saying “black communities should die”, people would be shitting their beds all across this great land. Including many people that post here at Reason who agree that these “white communities should die”.

I would disagree with you about the inner cities. Those communities occupy what were once some of the most productive places on earth. They only are not now because the governments in those places have waged war on the productive and driven them elsewhere. The same is true of the industrial communities in the midwest. Those communities don’t deserve to die. They deserve to have the government take its boot off of their throats. That is the case Williamson should have made but is too much of a smug douche bag to have made it.

I live in a rustbelt region. There are cities all around my area whose economy depends solely on welfare benefits pouring in from more productive areas of the state and the country. Yes the government needs to get their boot off people’s neck, yes the existence of the rustbelt itself is largely hugely the fault of government policies, but the fact remains that there are municipalities that have no business to continue existing when the only reason their population doesn’t either starve or get their shit together is the extortion of successful individuals and communities. Cut off their welfare, cut off everyone’s welfare, and those municipalities will wither away and die. As it should be.

I don’t particularly care for how Kevin framed it, in terms of “white communities” as if it were a question of racial hygene, instead of a purely economic situation. But the fact remains, there are cities and municipalities all over the country that have no right to exist, owing to their economic activity consisting almost entirely of government extortion.

Those communities don’t deserve to die. They deserve to be revitalized by the government getting out of the way. I don’t think there is any other proper way to frame it. To say they deserve to die is to really just accept it that the government can never be stopped or the damage it does undone and that is just not true.

A community that deserves to die is one that is no longer inhabitable for whatever reason or has lost all economic usefulness (like a gold rush town or something). These communities are not those. They could come back if only the government would allow it.

Those communities don’t deserve to die. They deserve to be revitalized by the government getting out of the way.

Assuming they have the wherewithal to revitalize themselves, sure. But the people in those towns aren’t in those towns because they have so much wherewithal to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Blaming the government for your woes will only take you so far. People bear a personal responsibility for their own lives and that of their family. Take for evidence that most cities and towns are not rundown parasite colonies and they’re dealing with a very similar, if not identical, government boot on their neck.

These towns, like Fostoria Ohio being my favorite local example, have populations that have unproductive parasites being grossly over-represented among them. If the government boot were suddenly off their neck, it’s not these people that would form the basis of a productive community. Those people have a place in a post-welfare world to be sure, we need people to dig ditches and clean up feces after all. But they need to be thinned and spread out across the larger society like a fart in the wind because a fart concentrated in one location is a nasty thing to behold and of no use to anyone.

If the government stopped killing those places, the people there would have a reason to be productive and productive people would move there. If you think the entire country is full of bums who will never be anything but parasites, then I am not sure what to tell you. Maybe Williamson is right and we should just kill those people and bulldoze their homes. I am a bit more optimistic than that.

If they are just parasites and their communities deserve to die, isn’t killing them and bulldozing their homes a rational answer to that?

No. Explain to me how it would be rational to conduct a genocide and obliterate property rights because some communities don’t deserve to exist on welfare subsidies. That’s a monumental leap that you know I’m not arguing for.

I don’t you don’t think that but both you and Williamson engage in the kinds of ugly generalizations that lead to such conclusions.

Which generalization did I make? That communities whose sole economic activity is parasitism don’t deserve to be communities? I don’t see that as an unfair generalization.

if someone applied that same argument by saying “black communities should die”, people would be shitting their beds all across this great land

Hating on poor white trash is the last socially acceptable form of intolerance and bigotry. Because “white privilege.” I’d love to see some smug limousine liberal academic go try and explain to some poor trailer dwelling Appalachian white dude that he’s privileged. See how long it takes for the hillbilly to bust him in the mouth.

You know, just because “you’re not allowed to say that about blacks” doesn’t mean it should be said about whites. As Sowell points out, political patronage is not the key to economic success. Blacks have patronage up to here and not a lot to show for it: anyone who suggests anything untoward about blacks is subject to public censure, but by the same coin that applies to critiques of welfarism and black attitudes toward education. So Democrat-run political machines in big cities confer power to blacks in the power structure while rolling right over blacks outside the power structure.

Both parties have been kicking the white working class around for a good while now. This was most evident following the 2012 election when the raw number of white voters dropped to 2004 levels. Trump realized this, seized it, and ran with it.

And conservatives were too stupid and arrogant to do it. They didn’t even have to make much of a big deal about trade. Just shut up about it and instead killed the Democrats for the regulatory state. The regulatory state is killing this country. Conservatives still understand that but they have become too stupid to communicate that to people. They stopped talking about how their policies would benefit people and instead just spoke in buzz words as if everyone agreed with them or even gave a shit.

You tell me what Ted Cruz actually stands for? He is a “conservative”. He believes in the constitution. He believes in liberty (unless it involves using drugs other than pot). What does any of that actually mean and why should anyone who doesn’t already support him care? That question was never answered and explains why he lost so badly.

In favor of a snakeoil candidate who sold them on an impossible dream: kick out all those messicans and bring back all those jobs. These chumps fell for it, and are going to get kicked in the teeth come November along with anyone who isn’t Team Hill. Remind me why I shouldn’t hold poor whites in a bit of contempt for going along with a contemptible candidate?

And conservatives are so stupid and sorry they lost to said candidate. Every bad thing you say about Trump just makes the conservative movement look that much worse for having lost to him. They couldn’t even convince Republican voters.

You can rationalize that all you want about the evil stupid voters just not understanding. But if conservatives want to be anything but losers they might want to accept some responsibility for their fate. Funny how a movement that claims to be about personal responsibility blames everyone else for the movement’s failures.

That is right. Those people have no grievance and deserve absolutely no say in the national government. That seems to be the opinion of all right thinking people. The idea that maybe they are being fucked or maybe there are downsides to open borders and the people who suffer those downsides at least have a point is not something that any right thinking person could ever admit.

Why don’t we just drop the mask and admit the truth. Kevin Williamson and Jeb Bush have. Those people suck and are parasites on society and Mexicans are just a superior race. We can’t kill them, but we can kick them out of every aspect of society we can and hope they die.

“The draw,” the monthly welfare checks that supplement dependents’ earnings in the black-market Pepsi economy, is poison. It’s a potent enough poison to catch the attention even of such people as those who write for the New York Times. Nicholas Kristof, visiting nearby Jackson, Ky., last year, was shocked by parents who were taking their children out of literacy classes because the possibility of improved academic performance would threaten $700-a-month Social Security disability benefits, which increasingly are paid out for nebulous afflictions such as loosely defined learning disorders. “This is painful for a liberal to admit,” Kristof wrote, “but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency.”

Wait, that sounds more like he’s applying Walter Williams’ and Jason Riley’s critiques of black communities to whites.

In effect, welfare has made Appalachia into a big and sparsely populated housing project ? too backward to thrive, but just comfortable enough to keep the underclass in place. There is no cure for poverty, because there is no cause of poverty ? poverty is the natural condition of the human animal. It is not as though labor and enterprise are unknown here: Digging coal is hard work, farming is hard work, timbering is hard work ? so hard that the best and brightest long ago packed up for Cincinnati or Pittsburgh or Memphis or Houston. There is to this day an Appalachian bar in Detroit and ex-Appalachian enclaves around the country. The lesson of the Big White Ghetto is the same as the lessons we learned about the urban housing projects in the late 20th century: The best public-policy treatment we have for poverty is dilution. But like the old project towers, the Appalachian draw culture produces concentration, a socio?economic Salton Sea that becomes more toxic every year.

What a hack! He doesn’t mention anything about the EPA in this paragraph. Of course, what is the likelihood that capital would return to these little pisspot communities even if the EPA disappeared overnight? Why wouldn’t it go wherever the skilled labor has gone? Why would the skilled labor return home even if the capital reconcentrated in these areas, rather than sticking around wherever they’re already profitable? And if capital accumulation serves only to attract skilled labor rather than reskill laborers already there, in the process raising the cost of living, what good has it done the hicks already living there?

They’ll be a lot better off once Trump kicks out all the dirty Mexicans and then personally goes to China and puts Xi in a headlock until he returns all of the jobs. After that, he’ll take away all of Iran’s nukes and give them to Seoul to use against the Norks and everyone will be in awe of Amurka’s return to greatness, amirite, John? It’ll be terrific, or so I have been promised.

In favor of a snakeoil candidate who sold them on an impossible dream: kick out all those messicans and bring back all those jobs. These chumps fell for it, and are going to get kicked in the teeth come November along with anyone who isn’t Team Hill. Remind me why I shouldn’t hold poor whites in a bit of contempt for going along with a contemptible candidate?

That being said, I am quite enjoying Trump’s rise. He’s less likely than the mainstream Republicans or Democrats to fuck shit up, because he lacks support on the legislative level, he’s the only one with skepticism on waste in the foreign policy department, and was the only non-mainstream Republican with a chance of winning. So huzzah for Trump!! Long may he torment the Republican elites.

Did you know Mexicans are uniquely bad at littering and Ann Coulter’s proof of this is random blog comments on the internet?

Did you know Asians don’t help the US tech industry because most of the people who start the companies are white people? Sure over 50% of the actual programmers in Silicon Valley are Asians, but Ann Coulter doesn’t want to talk about that.

Also, we should all be terrified of Central American voodoo religions because a very, very small percentage of Central Americans belong to this religion and a very, very small percentage of people belonging to that religion have historically practiced human sacrifice. Therefore, the fact that 0.001% of all immigrants might theoretically belong to a death cult means we should halt all immigration.

Have you ever spent much time in Mexico? Let’s just say its not Switzerland. I don’t think you have to read blog comments to realize Mexicans don’t have the same view of littering most Americans do, or used to.

Have you ever spent time in Appalachia? Let’s just say Appalachians don’t have much qualms about littering either, and neither do a lot of poor whites. This is a common issue with lower classes worldwide. I’ll pay you $500,000 the day Ann Coulter says something similar about white poor people though.

And quoting blog comments in a book is ridiculous. I’m sorry, but if you can’t find better information than anonymous internet commenters, you probably need to do better research.

I have been all over it. And it is like the old West Germany compared to Mexico. It just is. It is not that Mexicans are bad people. They just don’t have the same view of what a city should look like that we do.

The people in Appalachia are of course bad people and drastically inferior to Mexican. We all know that and would never think you don’t as well.

. It just is. It is not that Mexicans are bad people. They just don’t have the same view of what a city should look like that we do.

Indeed? I have to question then the purpose of ALL those signs threatening people all over the US with a $1,000 fine for littering. What does THAT tell you?

The point is that littering is not a uniquely Mexican thing. Or a Latin American thing. It is a HUMAN thing. Ann Coulter is simply peddling scary stories about foreigners, that’s all. Next thing you know, she’s going to go after those pesky Gypsies…

The point is that littering is not a uniquely Mexican thing. Or a Latin American thing. It is a HUMAN thing.

My office used to be located in a building that overlooked the capital lawn. I called it “Protest Park” because it’s where all the people would gather to protest this that or the other thing. There was a funny thing that was plainly visible from seven floors up – after the protest was over, the people who left the most trash on the lawn were those demanding more free shit.

ndeed? I have to question then the purpose of ALL those signs threatening people all over the US with a $1,000 fine for littering. What does THAT tell you?

It tells me that we have an insane government that preys on its citizens with fines and thinks laws and fines are the solution to every problem. It tells me nothing about people’s actual propensity to litter and everything about the government.

And last I looked, there are millions of central Americans and Mexicans in this country. I fully understand as a plane native born American that I have to bow to you and other members of the superior races but it is just possible that some of the superior race brought their littering habits with them when they came here.

Have you ever been where there are Gypsies? That is what they are. They are an entire culture and society based on begging and theft. They are truly incorrigible and the type of culture Libertarianism can’t account for or understand.

“The people in Appalachia are of course bad people and drastically inferior to Mexican.”

Then let’s trade ’em for Mexicans. I see no reason why, if we’re going to be picky about who can come IN to the country, we shouldn’t be equally picky about who can STAY in the country. Let’s deport the Appalachians, entitled college students majoring in useless careers, and people on welfare somewhere else and trade ’em for the best immigrants we can find in other countries.

All I know is if we’re going to try to control the cultural demographics of America we shouldn’t do it half-assed and let stupid American subcultures exist within our borders just because they were born in the right place.

If not for Mexicans, the construction industry would come to a screeching halt. They work, they work hard, and they pass drug tests. None of which I can say about native whites or blacks. I’ve got customers who consider it worthwhile to pay attorneys to handle immigration issues just because the Mexican workers are so much more productive.

I knew a contractor who hired his Mexican son-in-law as his assistant. When the daughter filed for divorce, the contractor did the math: he kept the former son-in-law on, and stopped talking to his daughter.

Sure we did. The point is that the welfare state has corrupted native-born US labor. It’s financially better for them to not work than to take low-pay jobs. I see and hear about it all the time in the construction industry.

Well, not totally free market. Welfare culture has made most Americans lazy, and now their being replaced with better laborers. The cause of the decline of American unskilled labor was not free market, but the solution certainly is.

The fact that labor regulation has priced American workers out of jobs is not a good thing. And that’s why Mexicans are on construction sites and in kitchens–because the regulations that go with hiring an American means you only hire Americans for upper level positions.

And all the Americans who could have got those ‘foot-in-the-door’ jobs are now not even it the running.

Not because of any innate laziness–but because government has made it so only highly skilled Americans are worth the hassle of hiring.

Constitution Party nominee Darrell Castle has a day job as head of a national law firm.

In the latter capacity, he advertises his willingness to file wrongful death lawsuits on behalf of the families of those killed by cops.

“I’m incredibly grateful for the men and women who serve in the Memphis police force and risk their own lives every day. I want to see them well-protected, both financially and under the law. At the same time, there are real problems happening out there, from the shooting of unarmed suspects to militarized raids on the wrong homes. I’ve seen both happen in our own city.

“In general, I believe wrongful death suits can be an effective way for victims to pursue justice. Many people are uncomfortable with prosecuting police for misconduct, especially if the act in question appeared to be a horrible mistake. I understand that, but I also understand the desire for justice when you lose a loved one in a way that seems, far too often, preventable.”

If he ever gets mainstream media attention, this little gem will get mentioned.

Well, the lamestream media do this little dance every presidential election where they actually talk about third parties when it’s a really slow news day. I suspect that coverage may prove surprisingly popular this year, ultimately leading to more ballot access.

YOU HAVE SOMETHING AGAINST THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN MAPLE LEAF MADE FROM FINE NORTH ‘MURICAN GOLD?!?!?!

Krugerrands have a litte bit of copper, making the coins less susceptible to scratching and thus more durable if used as currency. Gold Maple Leafs are made of 99.9999% pure gold, thus… they are susceptible to scratching.

The other good thing about the gold Maple Leaf is that it’s a coin with a stated face value of $50.00 CDN. Since “face value” of currency (including coins) is what matters for moving currency across borders with currency ceilings, you can move 200 1-oz Maple Leafs into the States from Canada and still be in compliance with export regs. The melt value of 200 oz of gold is around $335,000 CDN right now…

Polls also show that voter participation in the Republican primaries is up by around 60%, over 2012, while voter participation in the Democratic promaries is down about 13%. I don’t see how that translates into a Hillary blowout.

Polls also show that voter participation in the Republican primaries is up by around 60%, over 2012, while voter participation in the Democratic promaries is down about 13%. I don’t see how that translates into a Hillary blowout.

I don’t know if this has been posted yet, but behold I have seen the future and it is retarded:

Bringing my adopted cat, Jameson, home with me in 2014 was one of the happiest days of my life.

Having to go back to work two days later was one of the worst.

While the rest of the country is hung up on the necessity of maternity leave ? or even the newly coined “meternity” ? one group continues to be overlooked when it comes to paid time off from work: new pet owners.

“Paw-ternity” leave is already a reality in the UK ? the US pet-insurance provider Petplan found that nearly 5 percent of new pet owners in the UK were offered time off to care for their four-legged kids. (Not surprisingly, the UK is also light-years ahead of the US when it comes to maternity leave, offering up to 39 weeks of paid leave for new mothers.)

If companies want to offer that, great. But if people who take time off for a newborn already get grief from coworkers and managers, imagine how much worse it will be for someone taking time off for a cat. Then we’ll get to hear bitching about how people who treat their animals like humans dont get enough emotional support from coworkers who have to pick up the slack